The '60s Party Is Over

By

Paul H. Liben

Updated Aug. 19, 1996 12:01 a.m. ET

Today, America's first baby-boomer president turns 50. Since Bill Clinton won the White House, a nationwide chatterfest has ensued on the significance of baby boomers replacing the World War II generation. Through it all, I have hardly stopped thinking about summer camp.

I was packed off to sleep-away camp for the first time at age eight. It was as if the World War II generation had concocted camp in order to create camp-counselor...